Mangel Wine

[Don Vincenzo]

Hi to everybody
I jusr received my seeds for next year and one packet is MANGEL YELLOW ECKENDORF. My objective for next year is to produce wine and beer out of the roots as I have been reading that mangel is a favourite with wine makers. Has anyone ever tried using them? any help will be highly appreciated.
Regards
Don Vincenzo

[Snadger]

Are Mangels and Wurzels not related to sugar beet, hence the reason winemakers like them?

[Don Vincenzo]

Mangel wine

Are Mangels and Wurzels not related to sugar beet, hence the reason winemakers like them?

Yes they belong to the beet family, but has anyone tried and tasted wine and beer made from them?
Don Vincenzo

[madderbat]

cjj berry

Hi all
My Berry book has a recipe for mangold wine,which I assume is the same stuff.

5lb mangolds, 3lb sugar,2 lemons,2 oranges 1 gallon water.
cut mangolds up (don't peel) and boil until tender. use the biggest pan you can, but it doesn't have to be the whole gallon. When I did my parsnips I used a pressure cooker and got 5 pints in then added the rest.
Strain
Add sugar, rinds of lemons and oranges (not pith) and boil for 20mins. allow to cool and add orange and lemon juice.
Stir in yeast and leave in warm place well covered for a week then stir and put in fermenting jar with airlock.
When it clears rack it off and keep another 6 months before bottling.

Good luck

[Don Vincenzo]

Hi all
My Berry book has a recipe for mangold wine,which I assume is the same stuff.

5lb mangolds, 3lb sugar,2 lemons,2 oranges 1 gallon water.
cut mangolds up (don't peel) and boil until tender. use the biggest pan you can, but it doesn't have to be the whole gallon. When I did my parsnips I used a pressure cooker and got 5 pints in then added the rest.
Strain
Add sugar, rinds of lemons and oranges (not pith) and boil for 20mins. allow to cool and add orange and lemon juice.
Stir in yeast and leave in warm place well covered for a week then stir and put in fermenting jar with airlock.
When it clears rack it off and keep another 6 months before bottling.

Good luck

Hi Jane and thankyou for the recipe for mangold or mangel wine. One thing that puzzles me is that often I read to cut and not peel various root vegetables e.i. mangel. carrots, parsnips.... as we cut them what difference makes to peel or not.
Regards
Don Vincenzo

[madderbat]

root veg wines

I seem to remember from Domestic Science 1965 that the skins of root veg hold minerals, vitamins, goodness of some sort and flavour! (Certainly jacket potatoes taste very different to peeled ones

[Brewer-again]

Brewed with sugar beet

I have made an astonishing beer with sugar beet, porrige oats and gorse flowers. It had a lovely effect on my landlord. I will look for Mangel recipes and report back ??

[Snadger]

Just as long as you don't get it mixed up with mandrake you should be ok!

[madderbat]

Is Mangel a good alternative to beekeeping in terms of sugar for feeding yeast?

[Brewer-again]

sugar per square metre

I would think you would get far more sugar from honey than from a root crop. But do you have room for a hive. You have got me thinking now, have I. Any one know of any reasons why not in a residential area.

[Snadger]

I would think you would get far more sugar from honey than from a root crop. But do you have room for a hive. You have got me thinking now, have I. Any one know of any reasons why not in a residential area.

Neighbours?

[madderbat]

As far as I know there is no rule against it, and bees are lovely creatures. You should be aware that you need to tell them all the news though, then they know they are part of the family! lol

[Don Vincenzo]

Mangel, Beetroot beer

I have made an astonishing beer with sugar beet, porrige oats and gorse flowers. It had a lovely effect on my landlord. I will look for Mangel recipes and report back ??

Hi Brewer - again
would you so kindly illuminate us how to make beer from sugar beet, althought I haven't a landlord I wonder if it would have the same effect on my wife
Don Vincenzo

[Brewer-again]

beet beer

I boiled the sugar beet to extract the sugar, You would usually use about 3lb sugar for 5 galls so about 15 lb of sugar beet. The crushed oats provided some body, I believe they break down to a sugar that yeast cannot use. They are used in commercial beers. The gorse flowers, about four pints loose, added a nice nose. Our landlord put his head up a chimney, which had a lighted fire in the grate, asked us to count how long he could do it for, then passed out on the floor.. Perhaps less than two pints for your wife!!!

[madderbat]

You would usually use about 3lb sugar for 5 galls so about 15 lb of sugar beet.

That answers my question then, I don't think you could brew much wine from an allotment full of mangolds!